On over your cities grass will grow

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" A voodling device is less of a machine to produce order than a trap to catch randomness; A trap to transfix those small details that one would find banal, or farcical, or anecdotic, or just plain goofy, but that are, nevertheless, the intrinsic fabric of the voodle on its way to be made. Ultimately, the real enemy is rational intention. To me, voodling is what enables the elimination of all traces of intents. You must understand that I value such concepts as: randomness, serendipity, experimentation. These are things that interest me greatly in what may become, in reverberations, new reflections on the nature of voodles.."

Paraphrasing Labarthe, Sam Renseiw persist with his prolonged obsessive-compulsive voodle experiment, this time with yet another attempt at the repossession of space(s) with recently captured footage. View the discretely cut-up, hastily montaged docu-voodle of documented spaces with distinct songs without words overlay by clicking here or on the links above to realise how randomness and serendipity always seem so intentional after the creative act. (patafilm # 791, 02'14'', 33MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a distictive overview, fair to art .(Lum # 285 "art-fair-art " 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

And, regarding other ways of anticipating space: a special bonus-video, [©],a bookish treat, dedicated, from the patalab archive: abstract space(s) out-layed, cut-up, unfolded. (patalabarchive# 1, 02'32'',39MB, Quicktime/mov)

On long takes and horizontal rule(s)

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" Only the impassive lens, stripping its object of all those ways of seeing it, those piled-up pre-conceptions, that spiritual dust and grime with which my eyes have covered it, is able to present it in all its virginal purity to my attention and consequently to my love. By the power of photography, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can see, nature at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the voodler.."

Speculating on both Bazin's theory on the long take and the horizontal rule, Sam Renseiw captured a short segment of a promenade, appearing seemingly as a pastoral setting, while remaining a carthesian construct, albeit demoted of its functionality. View the slowed, twice stabilised, depth-of-field concerned late afternoon walk complete with borrowed landscapes by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 602, 02'55'', 15.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of watership down, without rabbits, but with a baby carriage interruption. (Lum # 118, 00'47'', 3.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features another, more shaky walk trough a piece of urban nature (patafilm # 418, [11.05.2007 post], 01'03'', 5 MB, Quicktime/mov )

On Ether(nity) and the "ur" of simulation

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"Whether scientific or mytho-poeic, both kind of ether provide an imaginary solution to the problem of illumination. Even light itself must express the ontological expediency of an imagined paradigm. Just as quantum physics has shown that measuring a perception converts a potentiality into an existence by collapsing a wave function, realising reality rather that reporting it, so also does 'pataphysics reveal that the function of navigators was to make land - not to find it."

Further fathoming the expanses of Dr.Faustroll's Ether, Sam Renseiw recorded an interior stroll, ending with an ur vertigo - inducing staircase gaze. View the panoramic procession, complete with mirror-on-the-wall and fine positive surround-sound by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 579, 03'19'', 17.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other video versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a lone figure practising an interior, panoptic gaze (Lum # 96, "drawing, from inside" 00'54'', 4.2Mb, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the project's main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a floating Constellation: a huge interior, seen moored from outside. (patafilm #208, 01'32''[29.06.2006 post] 6.7 MB, Quicktime/mov) Click on the bold links in the text to either view or for more didactic information(s).

On plectics and other voodle figurations

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" Style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can’t be separated...and Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, science, fashion, moral, passion..."

Re-assessing the concept of plectics in regards to aesthetic voodle-theory, Sam Renseiw montaged a few morsels of interior sun-casts into a figurative-abstract flow. View the unravelling of complex simplicity - or simple complexity - complete with Pseudo's sunrise on the reed by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 567, 03'32'', 21MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) [semanal08, week6, # 2 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a still king and moving by-passers, in late autumn (Lum # 84 "king and bypassers", 00'58'', 5.9MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the project's main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features a fine - complementary - plectic night-daydream, further probing the simultaneous casting of seemingly disparate entities. (patafilm # 364,[02.03.2007 post] 02'09'' 10.2MB, Quicktime/mov) Click here or on the bold links to view.